The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Thursday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Mutations of the virus that causes COVID-19, called SARS-CoV-2, are evolving at a higher rate than at the beginning of the pandemic, according to scientists.
While several countries are revising their mask advice either to ditch cloth masks or recommend doubling up as more virulent variants spread, Canada is sticking to its previous recommendations.
It looks like a pattern. First, three prominent critics of the Ford government’s pandemic response were targeted by a newspaper with close ideological ties to the Ontario PC government. And now, a doctor is alleging he was terminated from a leadership position over complaints from the province.
Since its inauguration 11 years ago, Bell Let’s Talk has grown as an influential mental health awareness campaign in Canada, garnering more than a billion interactions and raising over $130 million for mental health initiatives.
As calls ramp up for Ottawa to impose stricter travel restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19 variants, what to do about the truck drivers and other essential workers crossing the border from the U.S. each day?
Hundreds of inspectors will begin blitzing farms for migrant worker protections — as the province also urges reforms to a federal sickness benefit program to “leave nothing to chance” on worker safety, labour minister Monte McNaughton said Wednesday.
The daily number of new COVID-19 cases in Toronto has dropped and so has the rate at which the virus is spreading, but the increase in new variants of the disease — including one that is more contagious and perhaps more deadly — means it is too early to declare victory, local officials said Wednesday.
Co-owners Gavin and Ross Clark have a vintage shop that specialize in vintage t-shirts. Vintage 905 has caught the eye and made customers of several NBA players.
The Ontario bureaucrat fired after an alleged fraud involving $11.6 million in COVID-19 funds was the kingpin in an elaborate "kickback" scheme that stole at least $30 million more from the government, court documents say.
Still today, 10 months after Susie Goulding fell ill with the first symptoms of what eventually could only be identified as COVID-19, she struggles to find the right words to complete her sentences.